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Posted on 10/03/2009 3:46:47 AM PDT by don-o
While some Republicans saw the move as a disturbing use of power by Kerry, who became chairman of the influential committee earlier this year, several Democratic aides described the move as an attempt to rein in one of the Senate’s most obstructive members. DeMint has irked many in Congress over the years, including members of his own party, for blocking legislation, including a massive 2006 omnibus spending bill that he felt had too many earmarks.
In recent months, DeMint, whom some have likened to the late conservative icon Jesse Helms, has been a particular thorn in the side of Democrats. In June, he published a book called “Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America’s Slide into Socialism,’’ which attacked President Obama’s federal spending.
In July, he told a conference call of fellow conservatives: “If we’re able to stop Obama on [health care], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.’’ The same month, he compared the United States under Obama to Nazi Germany, telling an audience at the National Press Club: “We’re about where Germany was before World War II where they became a social democracy. You still had votes but the votes were just power grabs like you see in Iran, and other places in South America, like [Hugo] Chávez is running down in Venezuela.’’
In July, DeMint was among the handful of senators on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who voted against Arturo Valenzuela, Obama’s nominee for assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, and Tom Shannon, the assistant secretary and nominee to be ambassador to Brazil.
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Kerry's staff must see DeMint as an obsticle. Good to know the Boston Globe is on top of this.
IRCKED? Ahh...... to friggin bad. The frankenstien monster of Massachusettes is a fraud!
Gee, didn’t Pelosi travel to Syria without permission??? She set the precedent. Unless, we also want to count Kerry’s trip to N. Vietnam...but that’s just me.
Now that Teddy Boy is six feet under, the leftist media will tag Horseface as the new conscience of the Senate.
DeMint is the only other politician I’d vote for President. Palin is top on my list.
Congress needs a bunch more DeMints. Moderate Republicans and Blue Dog Dems are part of the equation. The Progressive Caucus should be sent packing, IMO.
The more I get to know him, the more I’m impressed with DeMint.
From my prospective, one often thinks of "conscience" as something housed in the brain.
When I think of "Horseface", I actually think of the other end of any common horse. You got it!
“Jones said that Kerry has tried to work with DeMint to give him the debate that he is asking for, but that DeMint has refused.”
Uh.......sure he did.....no problem......LOL!
Kerry eats “Liars Oats” for breakfast.
John Kerry is a traitor. Everyone who has voted for him is an un-American slob.
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